I've started cutting up 2 liter soda bottles into flower pots.
This last weekend I helped a friend tear apart is old, tired deck. It happens to be about the same color as my old, tired deck. So I am using bits of his deck to make a planter for my deck.
My soda bottle SIPs (Sub Irrigated Planters) with the 3d printed Irrigation blocks will run down the length of the deck in this planter box. This will allow me the ability to shuffle the plants around between the base sections.
I am pretty excited about what this will give me the ability to do for growing food in the future. The deck is one of two spots that get good sunlight over the course of the day.
Soda Bottles and old deck boards.
A little bit of help from my bestest helper.
Marking things that evidently needed to be marked up – glad she caught my oversight.
Starting to get the planter box built. There will be sides all the way around, so you can't see much of the Soda Bottle SIPs. You can see the bottle cutter I printed here as well.
This view would be just wooden planter.
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This weekend I went on a primitive camping trip with a friend. I took my old film camera – the really old one as my newer one's batteries where dead. Still need to drop the film off and see how the photos turned out.
All I had with me was my camera day pack with a few items, including a bivy sack, and the clothes on my back. I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could spend the night in the woods with no tent, sleeping bag, or other normal camping gear items.
It was a cold night, got down to the low 50s, and rained lightly for a bit. I was pretty chilly, but not actually cold. We had some issues getting a fire started with a flint and steel using natural materials – ended up 'cheating' and using a paper receipt I had in my pocket.
It was a good time. Hoping to do it again a few times this summer. With the low-gear requirements it can be a spur of the moment phone call to see if each other is busy, check with my wife and go!
In album 2012-05-06 Primitive Camping Trip (9 photos)
I am taking some photos with my old FILM camera – so old it's manual focus. I love that old thing. Wondering if I can make a digital back for it.
My camping buddy.
We found this old Oak tree. I can't imagine what this tree has seen in it's long life.
Making my shelter for the night. We re-arranged a deadfall to suit our purposes. Not 0 impact, but pretty low.
The shelter. My friends very well built section on the left, my really spindly and barely useful for the night on the right.
Having the two lean-to shelters face each other and the fire seemed to work pretty well.
I made my shelter out of garlic mustard. An invasive edible plant that is taking over the woods. My purpose was to keep the wind off of me, thus why it's so light weight.
My camera bag, bivy sack and the space blanket I opened up. The blanket made the difference between a cold night, and a cold night's sleep. Just barely enough.
Home sweet home for a night.
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In album 2012-05-06 Primitive Camping Trip
The shelter. My friends very well built section on the left, my really spindly and barely useful for the night on the right.
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My wife made all our daughter's favorites for lunch. Well, except for the sandwiches for the adults. Those where new to her.
Sandwiches, Mickiebownie and Cheese, cheesy poofs, and goldfishes.
A Minnie Mouse Mac and Cheese. Bows for Minnies bows, and little mickey shaped hot dogs that where cut with a tiny mickey cookie cutter I printed.
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My wife made our daughter a birthday cake. I printed out some chocolate molds for her to use to decorate the cake.
The first real use she's gotten from the 3d printer.
The finished cake with chocolate ears, bows, dots and mouse decorations.
Printing small bow molds to be used to make mini chocolate bows.
A Big circle chocolate mold. I designed a circle mold creator and published it at http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:22006
Trying to make curved base for doing chocolate pieces that will match a cake.
mouse and small dot molds.
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I printed out a Cookie Cutter I found on Thingiverse http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6217 for my daughter's 2nd birthday.
We cut the cookies right after they came out of the oven so they had a nice, clean shape.
I now have a gallon bag of cookie crumbs which are delicious!
Mouska-Cookies!
cooking cookies
cookie cutter printed on my 3d printer.
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black is current carraige bits, red is now, yellow is air flow.
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I took my printer apart to try to figure out why the bed isn't level. The Y rods where sitting crooked. I popped them out, rolled them on the counter-top to make sure they where still straight and put them back together. It's better, but still not perfect. I think the Y rod mounts are maybe stretched and the Y carriage is slightly less than perfect so they compound each other maybe.
I don't really know. I put it back together anyhow.
I tried to un-solder one of the power mosfets as I think I blew it, and that didn't go so well. I lifted the tracings off of the circuit board. I really don't like de-soldering braid.
The kitchen counter gets cluttered up with kitchen things. Fancy that! Time to move my printer off the counter!
I really buggered up the tracings when I tried to un-solder this mosfet. They fell right off. No Good.
I think I can top solder the mosfet. Tried it at least. I may need a new board soon.
Top dwon shot of a RAMPs 1.4 board that's assembled.
The Pololu stepper controller boards with the trimmer pots set to the right setting.
The printer still works! A good sign. Now to print my backlog.
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